ALGIERS-Three smugglers were intercepted Tuesday in the provinces of Biskra and El-Oued by combined detachments of the People’s National Army (ANP) while a drug trafficker in possession of 7.79kg of cannabis was arrested in the province of Tlemcen by units of the National Gendarmerie, announced Wednesday the National Defence Ministry in a communiqué.

ALGIERS- A total of 132 kilogrammes of cannabis have been seized Monday in Bechar (965-km southwest of Algiers), by a detachment of the People's National Army, the ministry of National Defense said in a statement.

ALGIERS- Deputy Minister for National Defence and Chief of Staff of the People's National Army, Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaid Salah will be on a working visit to the 1st Military Region as from Sunday, said the Ministry of National Defence in a statement Saturday.

ALGIERS- Six smugglers and 27 gold panners were intercepted Thursday, in several provinces of the country by detachments of the People‘s National Army said Friday, the Ministry of National Defence in a communiqué.

ALGIERS- Five smugglers and 27 gold panners were arrested in the country's extreme south on Wednesday by detachments of the People's National Army, said Thursday the Ministry of National Defence in a communiqué.

ALGIERS- A quantity of 95 kilograms of cannabis resin was seized Tuesday, by units of the National Gendarmerie in Tlemcen and 11 smugglers were arrested in the Southern provinces said Wednesday, the ministry of National Defence in a communiqué.

ALGIERS- The Deputy Minister for National Defence and Chief of Staff of the People’s National Army Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaid Salah will pay Tuesday a working visit to the 2nd Military Region in Oran where he will supervise a naval missile firing drill, at the Western Sea Front, said Monday the Ministry of National Defence in a communiqué.

ALGIERS- Eleven drug traffickers were arrested and a large quantity of cannabis resin and psychotropic tablets were seized Saturday in the west and south of the country by detachments of the People's National Army, said Sunday the Ministry of National Defence in a statement.

ORAN-The 7th edition of the International fishing and aquaculture exhibition kicked off Thursday at the Convention Centre in Oran, in the presence of Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fishing Abdelkader Bouazgui.

GHARDAIA-The experience of the construction of the new “ecological” Tafilelt Ksar in Beni Isguen (Ghardaia) in the south will be presented on 13-17 November in Bonn (German), President of the Amidoul association initiator of this project told APS.